Automatically pulls down your most dictionaries into your dictionary directory, and then starts Plover. Name this .plo.sh and add to in home directory, add "source ~/.plo.sh" to your bash or zsh profile and it lets you start Plover with the command "plo" from anywhere. Note: must be using dev-environment build.

.plo.sh

  1 #!/bin/zsh
  2
  3 # Color variables.
  4 red=$'\e[1;31m'
  5 grn=$'\e[1;32m'
  6 blu=$'\e[1;34m'
  7 mag=$'\e[1;35m'
  8 cyn=$'\e[1;36m'
  9 white=$'\e[0m'
 10 yellow=$'\e[1;33m'
 11
 12 # Automatically pull down most-recent dictionaries.
 13 function pull_dictionaries() {
 14   case "$(curl -s --max-time 2 -I http://google.com | sed 's/^[^ ]*  *\([0-9]\).*/\1/; 1q')" in
 15     [23]) echo -e $mag "\n📚Attempting to update your steno dictionaries!" $white && echo -e $yellow "\nPulling from GitH    ub." && cd ~/Dictionaries && git pull;;
 16     5) echo -e $red "📡 No Internet connectivity. Dictionaries were not updated. ❌\n $white";;
 17     *) echo -e $yellow "📡The network is down or very slow. Please be patient! ⚠️\n" $white;;
 18   esac
 19 }
 20
 21 # Run Plover.
 22 function plo() {
 23   pull_dictionaries
      # Or wherever your Plover installation resides.
 24   cd ~/plover
 25   echo -e $grn "\n🐦Launching Plover...\n" $cyn
 26   ./launch.sh
 27 }
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